Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017 – in pictures

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a sensational weekend in the calendar of any British petrolhead. It's a noisy, smoke-filled celebration of things that go quickly, and it takes place in the stunning Goodwood Estate in West Sussex every year at around this time.

As you can see from these photographs, the amount of exciting machinery on display is pretty much unique. From modern F1 cars to relatively ancient early racers, the Festival of Speed has pretty much everything.